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title: When Alice timidly says "If you please, sir—", the Rabbit drops the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Alice timidly says "If you please, sir—", the Rabbit drops the gloves and fan and scurries away into the darkness; Alice picks them up and, "as the hall was very hot", keeps fanning herself. Who acts: Alice, you, Rabbit, hall. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: C
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 13

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When Alice timidly says "If you please, sir—", the Rabbit drops the gloves and fan and scurries away into the darkness; Alice picks them up and, "as the hall was very hot", keeps fanning herself.

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**Who acts:** Alice, you, Rabbit, hall · **What happens:** say, —, drop, scurry away, pick up, be · **To what, where:** gloves, Alice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, you, Rabbit, hall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:13
# text = When Alice timidly says "If you please, sir—", the Rabbit drops the gloves and fan and scurries away into the darkness; Alice picks them up and, "as the hall was very hot", keeps fanning herself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	timidly	timidly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	—	—	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	scurries	scurry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	advcl	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
43	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
44	fanning	fan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	xcomp	_	_
45	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | timidly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **—** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drop** | present | the Rabbit | the gloves and fan |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme |
| 4 | **scurry away** | present | the Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pick up** | present | Alice | gloves *= glove* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the hall |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **keep** | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **fan** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | Alice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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